Accusateurs De Socrate Quotes

He who would travel happy must travel lite. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications. ~ Michel De Montaigne

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away ... ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

The eyes those silent tongues of love. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften. ~ John De Ruiter

I hold those wise who know how to be happy. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. ~ James De La Vega

Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord ... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

We have come to the church, Sancho. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars. ~ Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

Wishing I had a towel, I used my fingers to wipe the raindrops off my face. My wet face that had been partially protected by the brim of his cap. Which would have worked if the rain fell straight down. This had been slashing across.
"Oh, no."
"What?" Jason said.
"Turn on the light."
He did. I lowered the sun visor, looked at my reflection in the mirror, groaned, and slapped the visor back into place. "Turn the light off."
"What's wrong?"
I didn't look at him, didn't want him to see. "The makeup ran."
Not as badly as I'd expected, but I had dark smudges beneath my eyes and my bruising was more visible.
"So what?"
I leaned my head back. "I look worse than I did the night you met me."
"I thought you looked fine."
I rolled my head to the side, so I could see him. Hoping the shadows made it so he couldn't see me. "What are you talking about? I looked like a Cirque de Soleil performer."
"What are you talking about?"
"The black dots around my eyes?"
He shook his head. "I'm lost."
"You were staring--"
"Oh, yeah." He gazed through the windshield. "Sorry about that. I've just never seen eyes as green as yours. I was trying to figure out if you wore contacts."
"You were looking at my eyes?"
"Yeah."
"Not the makeup."
He turned his attention back to me. "I didn't realize you were wearing any. That night, anyway. Tonight it's pretty obvious."
"Oh." Didn't I feel silly? "I thought--" I ~ Rachel Hawthorne

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay. ~ Portia De Rossi

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. ~ Frans De Waal

Many people go looking for wool and come back shorn. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

As I pass out into the blackness,
I wonder if I have ever really known you -
Or if you exist at all,
And are not but a twisted, fevered, silver creation of my brain.
And the unreality of you comes over me,
Like a mist upon a lonely sea. ~ Mercedes De Acosta

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Great men should not have great faults. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Retra recoiled from his dangling nakedness... ~ Marianne De Pierres

God reveals himself unfailingly to the thoughtful seeker. ~ Honore De Balzac

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them. ~ Honore De Balzac

Jealousy is the paralysis of love. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Believe one who knows: you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Saint Bernard de Clairvaux ~ Claire Dunn

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Next to hating their enemies, men are most inclined to flatter them. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Up until I was thirty years old I was your standard issue Christian- the kind christian schools and churches in our town pounded out year after year like spiritual Model-T's, mostly in one color-beige. We were covenant children, so we figured we came with a cradle-to-grave, salvational warrantee. ~ Clare De Graaf

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. ~ Therese De Lisieux

Europe is a state with several provinces ~ Baron De Montesquieu

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left. ~ Gilles Deleuze

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Naif felt his tentacle caress her again, This time, though, he was holding something as well. It was rough hessian and the smell from it was putrid, like something dead a few days. She tried to push him away but his tentacle ws strong and persistent, not withdrawing until he'd wiped the cloth over her. ~ Marianne De Pierres